Lichty’s range of commentary and analysis dissects nearly two decades of what has now become new media society. Before Facebook’s IPO and Wikileaks’ media storm, artist-as-activists... More > experimented with data gloves, virtual world performance, and anonymous, anarchic disruptions determined to bewilder traditional enclaves of art and political society. In this collection Lichty presents several such experiments in distributed creativity: collaborations across a range of technologies and platforms, where authorship becomes a vague placeholder and sometimes acts as a performance in of itself, and the artwork is equally in flux, always in process, and often disappearing into bits.< Less

Provocative, controversial, sublime, and funny textile artworks, including beaded and knitted works, textile collage, art quilts, embroideries, and weavings. Catalog for the art exhibition, Needle... More > Culture: Contemporary Mixed Media Textiles, on display from May 20 through June 24, 2006 at the Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona.< Less

The importance of rethinking media and entertainment from a nonkilling perspective is self-explanatory. In "Nonkilling Global Political Science", Glenn Paige pointed out how violence is... More > "socially learned and culturally reinforced". This social effort is by no means casual or due to some innate taste or demand for violence content historically considered repugnantbut rather, "violent media socialization is useful for a state in need of professional patriotic killers". Nonkilling creativity throuought the ages also shows how a life-enhancing media is possible. At the Center for Global Nonkilling we sincerely hope that the contributions compiled in this volume may help shape an alternative to the lethal ideology that permates media that may enhance the value of life.< Less

Since historical times, competitive sport has been an important ingredient in the systematic construction and promotion the ideals of masculinity in society. However, times have changed and women now... More > enjoy a position of far greater equality than they ever did before. An increasingly larger number of girls and women now participate in sports once considered the exclusive domain of males, but criticism about their depiction in media created image of sport culture continue. It appears that post – feminism is not about the absence of feminism despite the wishes of some women to achieve absolute equality regardless of natural differences. This essay presents an examination of the image of women in contemporary sport culture and tries to discover if they have been ascribed a disempowered image.< Less

Since historical times, competitive sport has been an important ingredient in the systematic construction and promotion the ideals of masculinity in society. However, times have changed and women now... More > enjoy a position of far greater equality than they ever did before. An increasingly larger number of girls and women now participate in sports once considered the exclusive domain of males, but criticism about their depiction in media created image of sport culture continue. It appears that post – feminism is not about the absence of feminism despite the wishes of some women to achieve absolute equality regardless of natural differences. This essay presents an examination of the image of women in contemporary sport culture and tries to discover if they have been ascribed a disempowered image.< Less

A complement to the Culture of Corruption painting exhibition held in Chicago in September of 2006, this concept book takes the reader through visual episodes of social commentary and political... More > satire. The alleged Culture of Corruption so prevalent in current US politics is commented on from unique points of view and, depending on persuasions, can be quite entertaining or rather offensive at times. Documentation of the experimental painting exhibition and brief biographical information on the artist are also included.
"The Culture of Corruption cannot be stopped. It grows daily. We don't know how long this growth will continue. Or, once it stops, if we'll ever know to what extent it grew."< Less

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